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Wi-Fi signal availability expands

Students living in residence halls now have access to a new way of browsing the Internet with wireless boxes being placed in certain rooms over Winter Break. The boxes give students another way of accessing the Web besides using the wired Ethernet network. For more information on what the wireless boxes provide for students click here.


Police make arrests in counterfeit money investigation

Four people have been arrested in relation to counterfeit money being used in the Muncie area. The first arrest was made New Year's Eve and helped lead to the other three arrests Tuesday. Police found $3,000 to $4,000 in fake $100 bills when they searched a house near Ball State's campus.



DN|Podcast: 1/11/06

News, weather and info to go! The DN|Podcast is ready when you are.


Board passes policy about relationships

For years, romantic or sexual relationships between faculty and students have been an unspoken breach of conduct at universities across the country.


FUBAR: Excessive drinking can cause deadly DTs

For some students, Winter Break was used to work, relax or spend time with family. For other students, three weeks of liver abuse were their only accomplishment. One student confessed to drinking for the first 16 days of Winter Break. Then he took two days off and started again.



The real costs of tobacco

A Ball State researcher's new study reports a tobacco-free Indiana would be more economically sound, which would provide more jobs and higher personal incomes.



MEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Opening sweep

The Ball State University men's volleyball team took the floor Tuesday and swept the Scarlet Raiders of Rutgers-Newark 3-0 (30-18, 30-19, 30-19). The Cardinal's opponent traveled a long way from its New Jersey home only to leave 0-3 on the night and 0-3 on the season.


Winterize Yourself

It may seem mild outside now, but winter's coming. Be prepared with some of these products.


LETTERS: Newspaper should focus efforts on stories, not Web site redesign

Dear Editor, Personally, I feel for the most part that your collegiate newspaper - once good and once respected by readers and journalists alike - is a complete and utter joke. The new site design is unneeded and once again proves, without a shadow of a doubt, where the priorities of the DN editors and the journalism gods at Ball State lie: with shallow crap like fluffy feature articles about transvestites, people with illnesses who came back to run a marathon and with newspaper and Web design.


DON'T TAKE THIS TOO SERIOUSLY: Ads not emphasizing BSU's best attributes

On the television show "Arrested Development," Tobias F+â-+nke often makes comments that -¡-¡- when taken out of context - sound incredibly homosexual, even though they aren't supposed to be. Not that there's anything wrong with that. However, his brother-in-law Michael Bluth still tries to help him realize his verbal faux pas by pointing them out and saying, "There's got to be a better way to say that.